“But sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to one.”

You’d never in a million years think of Star Wars being remembered for a gambling quote, but in 19080 when The Empire Strikes Back was released, of all the scenes and lines in the movie, it was this exchange between C-3PO and Han Solo that became iconic: C-3PO:

Between now and the time they stop, that’s the greatest high in the world.” “You know the best part of the best drug in the world isn’t the high. And this very film became known for the following quote by Abrams: In 2005, Two for the Money graced our screens, a movie starring Al Pacino (Walter Abrams) and Matthew McConaughey (Brandon Lang) and after suffering a career-ending injury, Lang turns to sports gambling as a way of making money. Stars of the silver screen often deliver inspirational quotes and I’m sure we all have our favourite, from “I’ll never let go Jack’ in Titanic to “Here’s looking at you kid” in Casablanca, and while there may be millions of different genres and quotes to choose from, the most iconic are gambling related even if you don’t know it – James Bond springs to mind! Even Paul Newman, said “Money won is twice as sweet as money earned” and it’s this very sentence that sums up the world of gambling.

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